Toolbox. Johnson johnson now set to file for Emergency Fda approval within a matter of days as the u. S. For the first time confirms two cases of the South African variant believed to be more dangerous and the current vaccines dont seem to protect as well against it. What Public Health experts are recommending ahead. And any minute now were taking you live to the White House Briefing room. We expect to hear from press secretary jen psaki. The next steps getting set for pushing that covid relief bill forward with or without republicans. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington along with tom costello dr. Nahid bhadelia and Stephanie Gosk in West Virginia. Photograph give me if i interrupt you, but talk about those new vaccine trial results. Good news here, the Efficacy Numbers arent as high as weve seen in other vaccines, but this isnt like a bad situation here. Lets give you the Bullet Points before the briefing because theyre important. 72 efficacy in the United States with the n
we start with the growing fallout facing the white house this morning after a second batch of classified documents have been discovered in a separate location linking back to president biden dating back to his time at vice president this is after the initial discovery of classified materials in his former office at a washington think tank. republicans are using this, they have a new majority on capitol hill, now they are calling for a special counsel to oversee this matter similar to the one doing that for former president donald trump and the documents he took from office. there are a lot of questions so far not a ton of answers. so i m going to leave it there. want to be prudent here. this is under review by the department of justice i m not going beyond what the president shared yet, what my colleagues at the white house counsel shared with all of you as well. the president saying he was surprised to learn about these documents, is he saying he did not bring those docu
top of a brand-new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack is questioning donald trump s former cabinet members. sources tell cnn the committee has a particular interest in conversations that trump officials may have had about re removing him from office in the aftermath of the capitol siege. a source says the committee is speaking with former chief of staff nick mulvaney this afternoon. it s possible they could speak with mike pompeo as soon as next week. pompeo talked about his interaction with the committee this morning on fox. we ve had discussions with them about potentially appearing before them, trying to make sure we understand what it is they re asking for. as i always did when i was in service to america, i m happy to cooperate with things that are fair and transparent and deliver good outcomes for the american people. i ll always do that. today you re a no. you mean i m te
what he s done is dishonorable and unworthy of the office and he must resign. but the house speaker, kevin mccarthy says not so fast. i try to stick by the constitution. the voters elected him to serve. if there is a concern he has to go through the ethics we ll let it move through that. so he had eel continue to serve. in america today you re innocent until proven guilty. santos faces a number of complaints including the federal election committee and house ethics committee, filed by ritchie torres and daniel goldman they ll join us this hour to unveil a new bill making it harder for another santos to slip through the cracks. this morning authorities in if california are including more than 100 national guards members as they are searching for 5-year-old kyle dohan he was clinging to his mother as the
as we mentioned just on the other side david culver joining us from mexico. david, many of these migrants have traveled thousands of miles, they have spent weeks just to get to this point to cross the riser. what are they saying this morning? reporter: a lot of confusion, that s for sure, they saw what we saw playing out around 4:30 in the morning local time and that is this bolstering along the border. you heard ed mentioning the barbed wire going up, that s what we see across the rio grande here. you have national guards members in place, state troopers from the state of texas, also here. they are keeping people from what was a very easy crossing from going over. telling them instead go down to the bridge, the formal crossing. that s the only way you can get in. the question is what happens once you actually get over and you become processed by cbp? that really depends on who you ask.